Would you like a slice of Sexton Blake?
Sexton Blake
idiom Slang
Cockney rhyming slang · East London
cake
She baked a delicious chocolate Sexton Blake for the office birthday party.
After the long dinner, the host served a rich, fruit-filled Sexton Blake that delighted every guest at the table.
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cake and gingerbread
An easy or pleasant task or experience; a piece of cake.
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cake crumbs
Hardly anything.
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cake walk
Something extremely easy.
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cakes and ale
The simple material pleasures of life.
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eat one's cake and have it too
Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.
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give and take
[Cockney slang]cake
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have one's cake and eat it too
To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).
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icing on the cake
A thing which intensifies the appreciation of something already good, or (ironic) the regretting of something already bad.
Last updated April 28, 2026